United States Seventh Circuit

Denial of plaintiff's petition for writ of habeus corpus is affirmed where the choices made by plaintiff's counsel fall short of ineffective assistance given the context of the complete work done for his client and that there was no egregious error in the line of defense pursued.

Appellate Information

• Argued 10/02/2007
• Decided 03/04/2009
• Published 03/04/2009

Judges

• PER CURIAM., Before EASTERBROOK, Chief Judge, and MANION and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Michael K. Ausbrook (argued), Bloomington, IN, for Petitioner-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Stephen R. Creason, Steve Carter, Kelly A. Miklos (argued), Office of The Attorney General, Indianapolis, IN, for Respondent-Appellee.